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Southern Illinois | I don't mind the questions at all, be glad to help. This was actually for a distant family member, its not our tractor, but we told him to put it on the shelf and buy a new cheap pedal tractor for his grandkids but he was planning on letting them use it. For the paint we had the local welding shop do a full sandblast on the whole tractor, they used a super fine sand, if they don't use a find sand you will probably need to lightly sand it before you prime it. We did prime it with just regular rustoleum primer, We then went to Case Ih and bought a quart of case red and we mixed it with hardener and sprayed it with a automotive spray gun. If you have any rust pits after you prime it, if you can still notice them lightly sand it with a very fine piece of sandpaper and respray your prime and repeat this till they are not noticeable it will make them disappear. We did split the tractor however with the original crank we just cut it to get it out and bought a aftermarket that is made to be put in after you put the tractor back together. Our crank was also really lose they make some replacement bushings that should work we bought all our parts from johns pedal tractors but dad has done a few of these and he usually uses Samuelson pedal tractor parts. Samuelson is suppose to have the actual eska tire molds so u might investigate into them, Everything we got from John's was good but some of the stuff we felt was a little different from the original so it all depends on how much your wanting to spend and how original you want to be. If you have any more questions feel free to ask you can email me if you need to email is in profile. Have fun and Good Luck
Also Like another person mentioned be very careful with the chain if yours is in good shape they are getting very hard to find, this tractor we just done was missing one and we had to pay 75 bucks for a used one.
Edited by farmrboy 2/12/2016 21:27
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restoring a pedal tractor questions.
